All Blog Posts Tagged 'Monsanto' (10)

Enock Sejour is part of Leogane’s farmers. His small plot and other lots near Tomb-Gateau Fondwa Leogane, are about 1.29 hectares or 3.18 acres.

At 43, he somehow manages to get food to the family and sends the children to school. Then, last spring, when he was offered cheap seeds of what he called the "Project corn and peas," he has bought and planted them in one of his fields.

"The plants have become so vast! "They were beautiful from afar, but up close you could…

As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and with gunfire. Towns throughout the country, along with the national airport, are shut down due to demonstrations. Many are angry over the government’s announcement on Tuesday night of which two presidential…Continue

Rony Charles, a rice grower and member of the Agricultural Producer Cooperative of Verrettes, said, “Instead of foreigners sending us food, they should give us the chance to do our own agriculture so it can survive.”

Giving domestic agriculture the chance to survive would address four critical needs:

Creating employment for the majority, estimated at 60% to 80% of the population;[1]

I just read Jon Entine's article ' Will Science Phobia Kill The green Revolution' on the Huffington Post web page. And because he so casually mentioned Atrazine and Glyphosate I decided to find out a little bit more about him:

There is almost a generalized consensus that reviving the Haitian agriculture would be a pivotal factor in Haiti’s progress, as it tries to rebuild itself. Monsanto, one of the first foreign companies to make a symbolic gesture towards addressing the issue of food insecurity and agricultural ineptitude in Haiti, has been met with fierce opposition among some of Haiti’s most active peasants’ group.

In May of
this year, Monsanto made public that they will donate 475 tons of hybridized… Continue

There has been a lot of fuss about Monsanto's seeds' donation to Haitian farmers. One prominent Haitian activist even called for the burning of all donated seeds. I have been trying to understand the real beef with Monsanto's seed, and the fear of bioengineering seed (or genetically manipulated seeds).

Personally, based on my academic training, I tend to favor advances in this field, and my basic knowledge about engineered food products have led me to be less fearful than most, but… Continue

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